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This is a list of English language words that come from the Niger-Congo languages. It excludes placenames except where they have become common words. ==Bantu origin== *azawakh - probably from Fula or Tuareg. A breed of dog from West and North Africa *banjo – probably Bantu ''mbanza'' *basenji – breed of dog from the Congo *boma – probably from Swahili *bwana – from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader *chimpanzee – loaned in the 18th century from a Bantu language, possibly Kivili ''ci-mpenzi''.〔"chimpanzee" in American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2011.〕 *dengue – possibly from Swahili ''dinga'' *gerenuk - from Somali *gnu – from Bushman ''!nu'' through Khoikhoi ''i-ngu'' and Dutch ''gnoe'' *goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu ''nguba'') *gumbo – from Bantu (Kimbundu ''ngombo'' meaning "okra") *impala – from Zulu ''im-pala'' *impi – from Zulu language meaning war, battle or a regiment *indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – 'stories' or 'news' typically conflated with 'meeting' (often used in South African English) *jumbo – from Swahili (''jambo'' or ''jumbe'' or from Kongo ''nzamba'' "elephant") *kalimba *Kwanzaa – recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) as the name of a "specifically African-American holiday", abstracted from a Swahili phrase ''matunda ya kwanza'', meaning "first fruits (the harvest )". *lapa – from Sotho languages – ''enclosure'' or ''barbecue area'' (often used in South African English) *macaque – from Bantu ''makaku'' through Portuguese and French *mamba – from Zulu or Swahili ''mamba'' *marimba – from Bantu (Kimbundu and Swahili ''marimba'', ''malimba'') *okapi – from a language in the Congo *safari – from Swahili ''travel'', ultimately from Arabic *sangoma – from Zulu – ''traditional healer'' (often used in South African English) *Tilapia – Possibly a latinization "thiape", the Tswana word for fish.〔(Tilapia etymology )〕 *tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana ''tsetse'', Luhya ''tsiisi'') *ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind; humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, ''Ubuntu'', as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism". *vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin *zebra – of unknown origin, recorded since c. 1600, possibly from a Congolese language, or alternatively from Amharic. *zombie – likely from West African (compare Kikongo ''zumbi'' "fetish", Kimbundu ''nzambi'' "god"), but alternatively derived from Spanish ''sombra'' "shade, ghost". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of English words of Niger-Congo origin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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